Automatic classification of married couples' behavior using audio features

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2030-2033

  Black, Matthew ^a   Katsamanis, Athanasios ^a   Lee, Chi Chun ^a   Lammert, Adam C ^a   Baucom, Brian R ^b   Christensen, Andrew ^c   Georgiou, Panayiotis G ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a,b  

^a Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory SAIL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral signal processing; Couples therapy; Emotion recognition; Human behavior analysis; Prosody

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CODES (SYMBOLS); SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

AUDIO FEATURES; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; COUPLES THERAPY; EMOTION RECOGNITION; HUMAN BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS; POSITIVE AFFECTS; PROSODY; BEHAVIORAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; COUPLE THERAPY; SESSION LEVEL; SIGNAL-PROCESSING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EMOTION RECOGNITION;

EID: 79959859677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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